Job Ratnesh Shrivastava · Jan 27

Job Title: InterSystems Developer / Specialist (IRIS / HealthShare)
Location: New York City, NY (Hybrid / Remote)
Duration: Contract (2+ years)
Experience: Min. 8 Years 


Job Summary

We are looking for an experienced InterSystems Developer / Specialist with expertise in InterSystems IRIS / HealthShare to support healthcare integration and interoperability initiatives. The ideal candidate should have hands-on experience in ObjectScript development, healthcare data standards, and integration protocols supporting EHR/HIE environments.


Key Skills Required

  • InterSystems IRIS / HealthShare
  • ObjectScript
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Question Kevin Mayfield · Jan 27

I'm using this service to create a FHIR facade. 
I want to return OperationOutcome to the calling application when I detect an error. 
My code at present is :

set quickStreamOut=##class(HS.SDA3.QuickStream).%New()

set operationOutcome = ##class(HS.FHIR.DTL.vR4.Model.Resource.OperationOutcome).%New()

s issue = ##class(HS.FHIR.DTL.vR4.Model.Element.OperationOutcome.issue).%New()

s issue.severity = "error"s issue.code = "exception"s issue.details = ##class(HS.FHIR.DTL.vR4.Model.Datatype.CodeableConcept).%New()

try {

s issue.details.text = exception.DisplayString()

} catch
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Article Henry Pereira · Jan 26 6m read

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Some concepts make perfect sense on paper, whereas others require you to get your hands dirty. Take driving, for example. You can memorize every component of the engine mechanics, but that does not mean you can actually drive.

You cannot truly grasp it until you are in the driver's seat, physically feeling the friction point of the clutch and the vibration of the road beneath. While some computing concepts are intuitive, Intelligent Agents are different. To understand them, you have to get in the driver's seat.

In my previous articles regarding AI agents, we discussed such tools as CrewAI and La

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Article Ashok Kumar T · Jan 14 14m read

What is a FHIR Profile?

A FHIR profile is a collection of rules and constraints used to customize and refine a base Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR) resource. Profiling is a vital process that adapts the base FHIR resource standard to satisfy the unique requirements of a specific use case, geographic region, medical institution, or clinical workflow.

While the base FHIR specification provides generic, flexible definitions for resources (such as Patient, Observation, or Medication), profiles transform these generic resources into more precise ones. This ensures consistent and interoperable data exchange tailored for a particular community or implementation.

FHIR is designed to cover various healthcare scenarios globally. Profiles allow implementers to adapt this general platform without losing the benefits of standardization.

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Article Robert Cemper · Jan 25 1m read

If one of your packages on OEX receives a review, you get notified by OEX only of YOUR own package.
The rating reflects the experience of the reviewer with the status found at the time of review.
It is kind of a snapshot and might have changed meanwhile.
Reviews by other members of the community are marked by * in the last column.

I also placed a bunch of Pull Requests on GitHub when I found a problem I could fix.
Some were accepted and merged, and some were just ignored.
So if you made a major change and expect a changed review, just let me know.

# Package Review Stars IPM Docker *
1 IRIS OpenTelemetry Demo
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Question Hassan Mirza · Jan 22

Hi, I have simple email alert setup (EnsLib.EMail.AlertOperation) where in operations I have SMTP server setup and Recipients emails.

Also I find Alert Groups dropdown option in operations, processes, how this is different from setting up simple email alert with recipients list?

Please advise.

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Announcement Olga Zavrazhnova · Jan 22

We’re excited to announce the first mini hackathon“Building AI Agents with InterSystems”, taking place on a pre-conference day as part of InterSystems READY 2026.

In this hands-on challenge, participants will design and build AI agents using upcoming InterSystems capabilities, exploring how intelligent automation, orchestration, and reasoning can be applied to practical use cases.

📅 Event date: 27 April 2026
📍 Location: Gaylord National Resort & Convention Center, National Harbor, Maryland
🔗 Learn more here: Building AI Agents with InterSystems mini-hackathon at InterSystems READY 2026

  

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Question Hassan Mirza · Jan 15

Needs some help with FHIR return code 200 or 201 when processing HL7 messages in HealthConnect.

Issue:

1. If FHIR code is 200 or 201, HealthConnect keep processing HL7 messages

2. If FHIR code is NOT 200 or 201, HealthConnect keep suspend the HL7 messages in the messages queue, then keep processing NEXT subsequent HL7 messages in the TEXT file if the FHIR code is 200 or 201

3. I am also using following "Reply Code Actions" in Operation settings (:?R=S,:?E=S,:~=S,:?A=C,:*=S,:I?=W,:T?=C)

Please advice if I have a "if condition check" for FHIR codes 200 or 201, what "Reply Code Actions" I should use?

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Question Fernando Zañartu · Mar 3, 2021

Where can I download the Cache ODBC drivers?

Where can I download the Cache ODBC drivers for Windows?

I need to connect to a cache database by odbc but the FPTs that I have found do not work, 
could you tell me where to download the ODBC drivers

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Article Robert Cemper · Jan 21 2m read

Over the last 9 years, I published more than 90 packages in OEX.
And over this time, conditions and environments changed.
In the beginning, there was

  • no Docker
  • no IPM/ZPM
  • no embedded Python, no AI
  • Caché, Ensemble, CSP, ZEN, .... were dominating

As time changed, also product versions and external languages changed.
Adjustment of a few packages was no issue in the beginning,
and was a matter of support quality to my "consumers".

With the actual volume, I see no way to keep this target up for all my packages.
and based on the quality checks, I have the impression it is not just my problem.
Recent

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Announcement Olga Zavrazhnova · Jan 13

Hi Community!

Starting from January 2026, developers who turn product ideas from the Ideas Portal into real, working solutions with be awarded with 7,000 points on Global Masters and a badge.

✨ What you get:
🧙‍♂️ Idea to Reality Wizard badge —
awarded once to community members who implement a product idea suggested at the Ideas Portal
⭐ 7,000 Global Masters points — awarded for every implemented idea from the "Community Opportunity" list.
 

Details: 

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Article Yuri Marx · May 5, 2025 10m read

RabbitMQ is a message broker that allows producers (those who send a data message) and consumers (those who receive a data message) to establish asynchronous, real-time, and high-performance massive data flows. RabbitMQ supports AMQP (Advanced Message Queuing Protocol), an open standard application layer protocol. 
The main reasons to employ RabbitMQ include the following:

  • You can improve the performance of the applications using an asynchronous approach.
  • It lets you decouple and reduce dependencies between services, microservices, and applications with the help of a data message mediator, meaning that there is no need for producers and consumers of exchanged data to know each other.
  • It allows the long-running processing of sent data (with the results) to be delivered after utilizing a response queue.
  • It helps you migrate from monolithic to microservices, where microservices exchange data via Rabbit in a decoupled and asynchronous way.
  • It offers reliability and resilience by making it possible for messages to be stored and forwarded. A message can be delivered multiple times until it is processed.
  • Message queueing is the key to scaling your application. As the workload increases, you will only have to add more workers to handle the queues faster.
  • It works well with data streaming applications.
  • It is beneficial for IoT applications.
  • It is a must for Bots’ communication.
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Job Tricia Scanlon · Jan 19

We are hiring!  100% Remote W2 Contract | 3-6+ Months (numerous extensions likely)

Two Roles:
🔹InterSystems Engineer
🔹Epic Bridges Certified/InterSystems Engineer  

Having solid experience with the below: 

  • Interface Development: Building and configuring message routes, business processes, and transformations using components like IRIS, Ensemble, or HealthShare.
  • Interoperability Standards: Implementing and supporting workflows for healthcare standards including HL7 (v2/v3), FHIR, etc.
  • System Integration: Connecting disparate health information systems to EMR like Epic Bridges, clinical
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Question Evgeny Shvarov · Jan 18

Hi folks!

How can we handle JSON boolean types in IRIS?

I'm having a UI sending me a JSON payload as:

{

  "id": 1,
  "strprop": "string",
  "boolprop": true

}

The class is 

MyPackage.MyClass Extends (%Persistent%JSON.Adaptor)

{

strprop as%String;

boolprop as%Boolean;

}

And I'm trying to update an instance of a MyPackage.MyClass and I'm getting a datatype-related error, something like %JSONImportInternal+269...

How am I supposed to deal with booleans in JSON with IRIS and ObjectScript? Any best practice advices?

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Article David Hockenbroch · Jan 7 7m read

There are numerous excellent tools available for testing your REST APIs, especially when they are live. Postman, various web browser extensions, and even custom ObjectScript written with %Net.HttpRequest objects can get the job done. However, it is often difficult to test just the REST API without inadvertently involving the authentication scheme, the web application configuration, or even network connectivity. Those are a lot of hoops to jump through just to test the code within your dispatch class. The good news is that if we take our time to understand the inner workings of the %CSP.REST class, we will find an alternative option suited for testing only the contents of the dispatch class. We can set up the request and response objects to invoke the methods directly.

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Article Kate Lau · Jan 5 3m read

Hi, now I would like to continuous on the topic that we talk about previously

Using Postman for testing the OAuth2.0 of the InterSystems FHIR repository - Part1


Question 1: Where is my client_id and client_secret come form?

Short answer: Authentication Server.

If you don't have an Authentication Server, you may set up one as following

Provide the hostname (the host must support Https), at least 1 grand type (we choose client credential here), and SSL/TSL configuration

Input the scopes (here we input user/*.read and user/*.write, which is based on the scope support by the FHIR server (resource

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Article Jose Ruperez · Apr 28, 2025 2m read

Sometimes customers need a small IRIS instance to do something in the cloud and shut it down, or they need hundreds of containers (i.e. one per end user or one per interface) with small workloads. This exercise came about to see how small an IRIS instance could be. For this exercise we focused on what is the smallest amount of memory we can configure for an IRIS instance.Do you know all the parameters that affect the memory allocated by IRIS ?

Memory Settings

These are the different buckets that affect memory allocation by IRIS and its corresponding parameters:

  • Global Buffers (32 MB) => Minimu
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Article Ashok Kumar T · Feb 17, 2025 6m read

What is JWT?

JWT (JSON Web Token) is an open standard (RFC 7519) that offers a lightweight, compact, and self-contained method for securely transmitting information between two parties. It is commonly used in web applications for authentication, authorization, and information exchange.

A JWT is typically composed of three parts:

1. JOSE (JSON Object Signing and Encryption) Header
2. Payload
3. Signature

These parts are encoded in Base64Url format and concatenated with dots (.) separating them.

Structure of a JWT

Header

{ "alg": "HS256", "typ": "JWT"}

Payload

{"sub": "1234567890", "name": "John Doe", "i
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Question Stefan Rieger · Feb 28, 2020

trying importing classDefinition to Iris via LoadStream() fails with <INVALID OREF>zLoadStream+1^%SYSTEM.OBJ.1 ----> InterSystems.Data.IRISClient.IRISException : Exception thrown on server (code = 1192)...

Code is here; use any valid exported ClassDefinition as File to test that:

    public static void loadClassFromStream(this IRIS iris, string txt)
    {

        // IRISObject globalCharStr = IrisStreamExtensions.FromTxt(iris, text);
        var fp = @"C:\tmp\TestClass.xml";
        txt = File.ReadAllText(fp);
        
        var stream = new MemoryStream();
        var bytes =
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Article Robert Cemper · Jan 16 2m read

If one of your packages on OEX receives a review, you get notified by OEX only of YOUR own package.   
The rating reflects the experience of the reviewer with the status found at the time of review.   
It is kind of a snapshot and might have changed meanwhile.   
Reviews by other members of the community are marked by * in the last column.

I also placed a bunch of Pull Requests on GitHub when I found a problem I could fix.    
Some were accepted and merged, and some were just ignored.     
So if you made a major change and expect a changed review, just let me know.
 

# Package Review Stars I
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Question Dmitrii Baranov · Jan 14

I have a Postgres table which should be migrated to IRIS. The table has a computed column, like:

CREATE TABLE example_table (
    id VARCHAR(10) PRIMARY KEY,
    normalized_id VARCHAR(10) GENERATED ALWAYS AS (LPAD(id, 10, '0')) STORED
);

IRIS also has the LPAD function but I can't figure out how to achieve the same result using pure SQL DDL.

Tried this:

CREATE TABLE example_table (
    id VARCHAR(10) PRIMARY KEY,
    normalized_id VARCHAR(10) COMPUTECODE {
        set {normalized_id} = LPAD({id}, 10, '0')
    }
    COMPUTEONCHANGE(id))

Got the following error:

SQL Error [400] [S1000]: [SQLCODE:
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